Angelina Jolie @ Cannes Film Festival 2007

Angelina Jolie (in Elie Tahari) attends the photo call for A Mighty Heart at The Cannes Film Festival on Monday morning.

“We all said through the whole thing, ‘If it doesn’t fall together right, we drop it – it’s too important,’” said Angelina. “I did finally speak to her [Mrs Pearl] days after she saw it, and she told me it was all right. For her to tell me that she felt it was done right, I can’t tell you how much that means to me.”

Marianne Pearl said she had asked Angelina to play the part because “she trusted her and I thought she understood me.”

Jolie added, “I was very, very nervous to get it right but Mariane seems to think we’ve done all right.”